In frequent geographic pattern mining a large amount of patterns can be non-novel and non-interesting. This problem has been addressed recently, and background knowledge is used t...
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Both, the number and the size of spatial databases, such as geographic or medical databases, are rapidly growing because of the large amount of data obtained from satellite images,...
Sensor networks are unattended deeply distributed systems whose schema can be conceptualized using the relational model. Aggregation queries on the data sampled at each ode are th...
The notion of a map is a fundamental metaphor in spatial disciplines. However, there currently exist no adequate data models for maps that define a precise spatial data type for m...